Status Updates From Out of the Dust

“When I rode the train west,
I went looking for something,
but I didn’t see anything wonderful.

“I didn’t see anything better than what I already had.


“Home.”

🥹🥹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹

FINISHED ✅
This was definitely worth the trip down memory lane! Can’t wait to read more of Karen Hesse’s work

I love how, despite the losses and the pain she’s gone through, Billie Jo was able to find blissful peace within herself, finding clarity within the raging storm (or in this context, the dust storm)

Got to the sad part where I remembered so vividly as a kid 🥺








(Also I’m almost done already!? 😀😀😀)

“But if I played right enough,
maybe they would see past my hands.
Maybe they could feel at ease with me again,

And maybe then,
I could be at ease with myself again”

“You don’t realize how much you miss someone until you lose them” type situation 😭😭😭😭😭

The connection of the apple trees devoured with the death of the mother has got me bawling 😭



(Also L Father 😒😒)

“Some day I’ll leave behind the wind, and the dust
and walk my way West
and make myself to home in that distant place
of green vines and promise.”

Subtle foreshadow-

Remember reading this vividly back in grade school

Only realizing now that I was reading novels-in-verse before reading novels-in-verse lol